eFleetly: Improved battery fleet management for electric forklifts

Imagine half longer electric battery life reducing significantly related chemical waste.

Arto Makkonen

VP, Electronics software R&D business

The challenge

The usage of electric forklifts in warehouses is increasing rapidly. Unoptimised battery maintenance and bad charging habits lead to shortened battery life, unnecessary service downtimes and high battery replacement costs.

For operational performance and sustainability, efficient battery lifecycle management is crucial. By lengthening the lifecycles of batteries, the need for newly manufactured batteries is reduced. That significantly reduces also the related chemical waste.

The solution

The eFleetly battery fleet management solution is designed to increase electric forklift uptime by optimizing battery charging potential.

Our engineers developed parts of the solution in the collaborative innovation ecosystem. Our focus was especially on the user experience, fleet system development and analytics giving insights into battery maintenance.

Software R&D services eFleetly battery fleet management solution

About the customer

The innovation ecosystem of Fortum, Logisnext Finland and Bamomas, shared a common vision of the value potential and more sustainable maintenance operations.

More efficient forklift battery maintenance brings cost-savings and makes it more attractive for warehouse operators to use electric forklift vehicles in their fleets.

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Fortum Logisnext Finland Oy Bamomas

Key benefits

Improved electric forklift performance

Optimized battery charging and improved forklift uptime enable fleets to minimize downtime and deliver services with improved speed and more cost-efficiently.

Speedy market entry

Our engineers helped to develop the new service with speed.

Sustainable maintenance operations

Half longer battery life compared to poorly-maintained batteries. This reduces the need for newly produced batteries and related chemical waste.

Impact on a larger scale

Multiple different industry segments, such as automotive, industrial vehicles, smart home and living and health services could potentially benefit largely from optimised battery life.

We see lots of potential in this type of services in multiple different industry segments, such as automotive, industrial vehicles, smart home and living and health services, which are adopting electric devices and vehicles. The optimised battery life creates cost-efficiency, service reliability and more sustainable operations.

Sami Järvinen

Business Development and Sales, Tietoevry Product Development Services